Thus, in the exhibition Brave New World, four young artists from Bamako come to narrate a interpretation of their world in the grip of these struggles and offer us their poetic vision of an optimistic development. The various political and social crises that regularly shake our region can also be analyzed through the prism of the novel: antagonisms between the imposition of a supposedly civilized world order and the social and humanist resistance of the jungle are perceptible in the historical development of the last thirty years in Mali. Huxley would probably have fun comparing his hypnopedic conditioning and the use of soma to the addiction to social networks and other digital media for consumerist purposes and to the blunting of any critical reflection! Here or there, even more so in this troubled period of pandemic, our societies undergo a form of sanitary diktat and the wanderings of a "science without conscience" with the restriction of freedoms and seem to be manipulated or even conditioned by biased media and multinational trusts. The current evolutions of the world can unfortunately be perceived as going dangerously towards the caricatural universe described in the fiction. In spite of so many warnings, our world seems obstinate, abused by the interests and purposes of a system that has become suicidal. In an already worrying period, ninety years ago, Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" was published, a dystopian fiction alerting us to the progressive domination of authoritarian, standardized and smooth doctrines, based on the industrialization/consumption vector and implying the subjugation of Nature and its systemic plunder.
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